Episode 719 Scott Adams: Democrat Candidates Self-Immolating, Loserthink, China’s Mega-Holocaust

Date: 2019-11-09 | Duration: 57:58

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[Music] man this is a good book whoa i can't put it down that's only because i glued my hand to it i i actually can't put it down it's just stuck with my hand well i hope you have your copy i'm still uh
uh in new york city on a weird time zone but i'm flying back today so tomorrow's coffee with scott adams at the correct time thank you very much this time zone stuff is difficult but there is one thing that can make it better if your day isn't perfect yet try the simultaneous sip it's coming up and you can get ready for it by grabbing a cup mug glass stein chalice tankard shot glass canteen vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now

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like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine end of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous sip go
feel the connectedness with everybody around the world our energy is connected it is one it is one so as you know i'm on in the middle of my book tour for loser think that just came out it's uh it's making a big impact so far it's the weirdest experience i have to say the the odd thing about my life is that uh i've got three or four different things that people are independently becoming fans of or consumers of and so when i travel now people will come up to me and say oh i love your book god's debris from 15 years ago or

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god's debris from 15 years ago or i love dilbert or i love one of your new books or i love your periscope but the weird thing is there are a lot of people who only consume one of those things so i'm having this weird semi-rock star experience here when i meet people who like one of those things so some of them are some somebody's saying it's a humble brag it's not a humble brag i'm just bragging there's nothing humble about this let me point you to a chapter in my book uh
uh loserthink let's see this is a perfect example of how to use this book so somebody just said humblebrag i know you were half joking but let me show you how to use this book so you look up in this case the section on ego which would be on page if i could do all right here it is looks like page

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like page 35 and if you went there you would find out i have a chapter called the ego problem and how you should treat your ego as a tool you should treat it as something you can dial up and dial down it's not who you are
are so i'm not the guy who brags and i'm not the guy who sometimes says humble things but i do both of those things it's just that the situation calls for one sometimes it calls for the other and let me tell you when you're on book tour should you dial up your ego or should you dial it down well it's delicate you don't want to go too far but book tour is no time to be modest it's no time to be modest you're not going to sell a book if you're modest you got to say this is a good book now the fact is people are saying it's my best book so we'll see

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let's talk about some other things by the way you will be seeing me on greg guffield show tonight um and i can guarantee you it's lit [Laughter] it's gonna be a good it's gonna be i think i can almost guarantee you maybe the best show ever so watch the greg gutfeld show tonight fox news so don junior on the view um i only saw some clips from it um you know i i look at something that's meant for entertainment such as a show like the view and they know how to produce entertainment so if you mix the hosts of the view with don jr throw in a kimberly guilfoyle that's a good show that is a really good show

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it's uh uh remind me to answer your question are your teeth real somebody just asked me
me um so i don't know what they you know what did they think they were going to get you throw don jr into that situation and he's he's not going to roll over he's not going to be he's going to give him a show so the whoever books the guests on the show great job great job on that because you got some good entertainment you got lots of viewers and you can't take any of it too seriously all right so when don jr is down promoting his book which by the way um is out at the same time called triggered i believe triggered i think it's probably the number one book probably if it doesn't i'm sure it will be and uh he puts on a good show and the the hosts of the view put on a good show and he put him together and it's just a good show there's nothing

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it's just a good show there's nothing else that's important about what they talked about in my opinion but they're all talented they put on a good show let's talk about the world oh about my teeth so uh um i do sometimes in public get complimented for my teeth now there's veneers which means that what you're seeing is a basically something put over the original teeth
they are expensive but if you can afford it they're they're pretty worth it because they they do have a big impact one of the things that um straight teeth do especially if they're white is um
one of the things they uh do is they make you look a little younger because your teeth are kind of a giveaway for age so it's a good thing to do if you're in the public eye

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the public eye it's just part of the job all right um let's talk about china this is a story in the national review and when you just when you think china can't get any worse it's like you know china is a great country yeah we should be friends yeah sure they they send fentanyl over here and they kill 50 000 americans a year with their fentanyl but you know otherwise you know they're pretty good china's pretty solid well you know they're they're reneging on hong kong and they're looking to oppress them when they said they wouldn't but yeah yeah you can let that go that's that's a small thing otherwise china's pretty solid well unless you count the fact that they're massively trying to steal everybody's intellectual property um you know that's not cool but but otherwise good solid country now well when i say a solid country i'm not counting the fact that they're

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counting the fact that they're apparently using the flan falloongong followers for spare body parts and killing them on demand and selling their organs but if you don't count that china is a very respectable great place well not counting the fact that they're they're rounding up the uyghurs minority and putting them in concentration camps but if you don't count that and the fentanyl murders weapons of mass destruction the the oppression of hong kong um the using the uh falun gong people for body parts 10 to 70 million of them we don't know how many they'll use but you know that plus the concentration camps but that's not much today we learn that apparently china is assigning a ethnic chinese

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ethnic chinese replacement husbands for the wives of the uyghurs who the the male has gone off to a concentration camp
do you even hear that that's right the china is assigning a rapist for the families where the where the father has been taken to a concentration camp let me say that again china is assigning a rapist to every household where the of the uyghurs where the man has uh been put in the concentration camp so they put in this this assigned ethnic chinese rapist and he sleeps with the wife
and uh he tries to re-educate the family so that they're re-educated while the husband's in the concentration camp

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husband's in the concentration camp possibly being used for parts
now somebody says show me the proof that's exactly what you should say if when somebody says something like i just said show me the proof right that's a fair thing to say that's what i've been saying for i don't know a couple of years when people said china was using the falun gong folks for parts and killing them on demand and selling their organs i thought well that's not true that's ridiculous you know maybe it's based on some anecdote or they used to do it or something but the evidence apparently is pretty pretty solid and when i say pretty solid it's a hundred percent there's no doubt about it they're doing that so when i say the story that they're assigning a rapist a full-time rapist not not one rape not one rape

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not not one rape not one rape he's assigned to live with the wife of of the you know whose husband went off to the concentration camp it's mind-boggling and
so that's that's the situation now is that worse similar to or less than the actual holocaust because remember i always say don't compare anything to the holocaust because there's nothing like it don't compare anything to american slavery because there's nothing like it they just sort of stand on their own as as distinct evils that you should never compare anything to
but china is using for body parts a group that has 10 to 70 million people in it plus the entire uyghur population i don't know how many there are but there are a lot and i would think that in the long run china's going to set the record and i don't mean it a

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set the record and i don't mean it a good way so that's bad all right let's talk about something else that's what everybody else is gonna do everybody else is gonna look the other way and say yeah i hear there's a mega holocaust going on in china but i'm hungry let's go to lunch um so bloomberg is teasing about getting into the race uh i'm going to continue my prediction that bloomberg will not get into the race in the end but you might ask yourself scott if you think he's not going to get into the race why is he making so much noise about it he could easily put in a statement no i do not want to get in the race but he hasn't why would bloomberg want to tease that he's getting into the race without actually getting into the race what would be a strategy where that would make sense now if he were someone else i'd say oh it's just

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were someone else i'd say oh it's just to get attention you know maybe it's to build up his business or something but that really wouldn't work in his case and he's you know multi-billionaire he doesn't need any of that so why would he do it
um i'm seeing watching your comments i'm seeing lots of pretty smart guesses but i haven't seen the right one yet now i don't know if it's the right one i'm just going to give you my speculation all right when when you hear me say it i'm seeing lots of guesses but nobody's quite yet the one i'm going to say yet are you ready for this he's doing it to take biden out
because bloomberg and biden would be somewhat close to the same positions what's the one thing that will take biden out will it be that he falls in the polls

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that he falls in the polls maybe but you can't really count on it because biden just keeps floating up there no matter what he does so if you're a bloomberg and you said to yourself my god we can't send biden out against trump it'll be a slaughter don't you think bloomberg knows because all the democrats know at this point that if they send biden out against trump there was no point in even having an election there would be no point in having the election there would just be a done deal so how do you take biden out you can't really ask him to quit because it's just up to him and obviously he wants to run
listen i think somebody said it funding there you go somebody got it if you were a money person and you were thinking about giving money to joe biden but at the same time there was a serious rumor that bloomberg was going to get into the race do you still give money to joe biden

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no you kind of delay you might in the end
end but as long as bloomberg is teasing run why would you waste your money because if bloomberg gets in you you'd probably say okay there goes biden because you know bloomberg's sort of an improved biden same age but you know he's a little bit more in the ball
so no i'm not saying that uh let me be clear i'm not saying that the people who donate money would donate to bloomberg instead i'm saying they would just not bother donating to biden because he wouldn't he wouldn't be as attractive a candidate and i think blindness is kind of teetering on the edge that if his funding goes down another i don't know 10 or 20 percent just pick a number um that might be enough to say okay this won't work i'm moving in the wrong direction so biden only only needs to see his funding shrinking every week it doesn't have to shrink by a lot to know that it's not going to work out for him

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him so it could be that bloomberg's play is just to freeze the donors so they don't support biden while they're waiting to see what bloomberg does so bloomberg might be just trying to take biden out of the race because that would be i suppose a good play now bloomberg doesn't want warren or bernie sanders to win but apparently uh bernie sanders and warren are trying really hard not to win this race so i think that part's gonna take care of itself did you see uh bernie's latest plan on the border so bernie looks at the news and uh he sees that there you know this slaughter of this mormon family americans living in mexico by the cartels and and before the before the family is even buried he announces that he wants to open the border with mexico and basically get rid of ice don't deport anybody and give free

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don't deport anybody and give free health care to anybody who comes across so you would decriminalize the crossing and not deport anybody and if you get in you get a reward free health care and a job so i was wondering what that meeting looked like was there a meeting in which bernie said you know that heart attack really got to me i really don't want to be president anymore can anybody think of a policy that would guarantee i couldn't possibly win the win the election because i've been telling people i'm gonna you know tax the hell out of them and i'm still one of the top polling people what can i say to make people not vote for me is there anything i can do to guarantee that i can you know fall in the polls and get out of here and somebody be like idea over here yes you um you could say open the border the same week that americans were slaughtered by the cartel and bernie's like that's good well

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and bernie's like that's good well that's good i'm going to try that so i think barney bernie bernie is just self-immolating he has no chance of being president with a policy like that no chance you you imagine running against trump with a policy of letting the cartel in and giving them free health care i'm not even joking bernie's policy gives free health care to the mexican cartel all they have to do is drive onto our side of the border free healthcare
it's just mind-boggling the the i i can't even figure out if it's incompetence because it just looks like somebody intentionally trying to not win it would be the very thing you would do if you wanted to lose and of course warren's plan is scaring everybody with money and that's no good way to win so we'll see what happens buddha judge

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so we'll see what happens buddha judge still looking like the sleeper dark horse candidate you notice that nobody really talks about him except to say that he seems to be moving up in the polls so buddha judge continues to not make news but the reason he's not making news is he's not being bad crazy so what is it that the democrats want in the candidate right now they kind of like someone who's not bad crazy and buddha judge keeps delivering that i'll just say reasonable things about health care i'll say reasonable things about the border i'll say reasonable things i'm just not trump you know i'm sort of democrat policies and i'm reasonable he can't get any news coverage with that kind of a play but eventually people will catch on oh yeah it needs somebody reasonable
in the comments somebody's saying african-americans don't support booty

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african-americans don't support booty judge that it's hard to know exactly if that's true because biden is still in the race i think the way to know who the african-american democratic voters would prefer would be after biden leaves which we all expect so once buttons out where do those votes go to elizabeth warren probably not bernie not so much buddha judge i know he might get a share and i think that whoever gets elected is going to get a you know a healthy healthy dose of the african-american vote just for being a democrat all right um let's talk about uh harris
so you might hear me making this same joke uh on on the greg often show but i can't uh i can't help pointing out

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i can't uh i can't help pointing out that when you're looking at the democrats and there's there's sort of this oppressive level of incompetence that we're seeing in the whole field that it's just sort of head shaking stuff and my favorite example is that there are some democrats who want to lower the voting age to 16. that's an actual thing people are talking about at the same time harris announced that she wants school day to be extended to a few more hours so that it matches up when the parents get home now if you're a 16 year old and you just got the right to vote are you going to vote for the ones who want to put you in school for a few more hours or are you going to vote for trump i want you to go out and hang out with your friends so somehow the the democrats have found the only way

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have found the only way they found a self-canceling policy it's like i've got an idea we'll let the 16 year olds vote because they they're so heavily leaning toward democrats clever at the same time we're going to jail them in school for three extra hours and we'll we'll see who they vote for so i think they're creating a general a generation of trump supporters and they don't know it um so that was hilarious somebody has a bloomberg campaign logo that i'm trying to decide if i think bloomberg had anything to do with it or is it just somebody supporting him but man is it bad and and likewise if you saw harris's video there was a campaign video it was so bad it looked like it was made for somebody who was running to be in a cubicle in the 80s she's listening to her laptop and she's got headphones on that recorded

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you know at least at least give us some wireless headphones will you if you're doing a president if you're running for president in 2019 and you're shown listening to a laptop go wireless go wireless um so she looked like she was running to be uh
uh i don't know an executive assistant in a in a cubicle environment in the 80s or something it was it was the most unpresidential thing you've ever seen uh and it's amazing that she allowed people to even see that but
uh my point is that you don't realize how
how bad other people are at messaging until you see trump's campaign do it you know when you see brad parscale's operation you see the the quality of the video they produce you see that they hit every note you know anything that comes out of the trump campaign is perfectly produced the logo

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is perfectly produced the logo is always great the the visuals the composition the color the sound the message the order of things the length of it all of it from top to bottom the trump production best we've ever seen would you say maybe best we've ever seen and then you see any of the other candidates it looks like they made it in powerpoint or something in their spare time it's it's insanely you know there's quite a difference there anyway
saudi arabia reportedly bribed a twitter employee to spy on users so that's cyber security experts are saying that now is that true it's something that a cyber security experts are saying we don't really know that's true i mean um
um it's it's in the category of things

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it's it's in the category of things that you should not necessarily automatically assume is true or even that you know the context first of all i don't know what it means to spy on users i assume that means looking at their direct messages because everything else is public by design right i know so maybe some maybe maybe but this raises the interesting question uh how hard would it be to influence any of the social media platforms if you could find an employee who had the passwords i'm simplifying it's it's harder than just having a password if you could find the right employee or employees and bribe them and how much would you be willing to bribe somebody to influence an entire platform well millions yeah five million dollars you there's probably somebody who would pay enormous amounts of money

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who would pay enormous amounts of money if they could find the right employee or employees who could somehow manipulate the algorithm without getting caught now i don't know enough about the platforms and the algorithms and the security that they put in them to know if that's even possible but i also don't know it's impossible so i would love to dig into that i've invited jack dorsey to come on the periscope sometime and he said yes but as you've learned from my other invitations there's a big difference between somebody saying yes and then actually getting it scheduled so i don't know if i'll do it but i'd love to ask him that and jack if you're watching this i'll ask you now so that you can think about it
it is there any way that we in the public could understand the process and system that goes into creating the algorithm and for example how many people understand the algorithm let's just just take twitter for an example how many people know the ins and outs

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how many people know the ins and outs and the code and who's got control of it and if you change this variable you get this how many people understand the whole thing if anyone wars is so enormous and complicated that everybody has their little module and they become experts in the module but that's all they know they don't know how what they do is influences the rest of it except by guessing i suppose or common sense so i'd love to know that because it would tell you in sort of general terms how susceptible they are to a bribe and you know do they have processes in place to make sure that the only people who have the access to be able to change the algorithm have multiple people watching them you know the controls one password isn't enough you know that sort of thing and then i asked myself who are the potential people who would want to bribe an employee at a corporation and the list is so long is crazy

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list is so long is crazy first of all it's you know every billionaire who has a dog in the dog in the race every campaign every intelligence operation of other countries plus our own the cia our own cia they'd have a lot of reason to
to to try to get control of the social media platforms so i think we need a lot more visibility into that even if the visibility is sort of on the concept level all right the funniest thing lately about trump is there's a there's a new book out and i i don't know the title of it doesn't matter so there's a new insider book uh reportedly by some anonymous person about you know the inner workings of the white house and and trump and it tries to make the case that he's impulsive and he won't his decisions are impulsive and um and then he won't read the briefings and

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and then he won't read the briefings and stuff now these are things we've heard before but what's different about it is this
what's different about it is that trump has been president for three years so if you're looking at trump's operating style and it's so consistently reported that i will say it's probably true that when people say he's impulsive they're sort of reading his mind you don't know what's going on in there but let's just say yeah he brings up topics that you weren't expecting now to other people that might look impulsive but but what they don't know is how long has he been thinking about it has he talked to anybody else about it if it's just the first time you hear him come up with an idea hey let's do x and you you've never been part of the conversation what would you think of it would you think well we've never talked about this you just threw this into conversation it's impulsive but how do you know

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it's impulsive but how do you know this could be something he's thought about for 20 years could be something he's had meetings with he's talked to you know his casual advisors could be something he's been thinking about for a long time you don't know what's in his head you just know it's the first time you heard it
it so to call that impulsive is mind reading which is one of the things i talk about and lose or think uh and we get we get so accustomed to stuff like this that we start to believe that this mind reading is somehow a legitimate part of the news or a legitimate part of what we know about people it's not nobody knows what's in his head all we all you know is it's the first time you heard the idea you don't know if it's impulsive but then the other the other charge is that he doesn't read the briefing materials the background stuff now is that a problem

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now is that a problem well you imagine a situation in which it would be you know it's easy to imagine that's a problem but it's been three years what problem has it caused name a problem can you tell me one problem that caused i've never heard one so three years into it is it still valid to talk about his management style think about it before he was president was it valid to talk about his management style of course of course in fact it would it would be one of the most important things you could talk about you'd want to talk about his character his personality his management style you know his impulsiveness whether he looks into the details terribly important you and you want to look at those things and say okay a person with those qualities is likely to do a good or a bad job in your opinion

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opinion but now we're three years in those questions are irrelevant now because you can tell that the combination of his personality and his characteristics is either working or it's not and obviously it's working unambiguously it's working so you have to ask yourself how the heck does that work how can you get good results being all impulsive and not looking into the details well maybe that is the maybe that is the system so here's something that i've always said about trump i guess in my mind i don't know if i've ever said this out loud so fact check me on this have i ever said this on a periscope one of the uh best qualities of trump in terms of strength of technique so this is just a technique

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so this is just a technique statement one of his strongest strengths is simplification and in order and that's how he simplifies his messages so build them all you know uh push china you know stuff like that so he just he's he's a really good simplifier that's what makes you good at branding and marketing it's what makes you a good persuader so he's a simplifier but there's a there's a skill that goes into simplifying and it's the the bigger skill and i've never seen trump get credit for this and when you hear it for the first time you're going to say oh that's actually important here it is if somebody is a good simplifier they can tell what's important that's the skill the skill isn't simplification the skill is knowing what's important so

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the skill is knowing what's important so that when you get rid of all the other stuff what's left is what's important
and you see that in everything trump does so when he was running people said hey you can't you can't spend this little money and run for president apparently he knew that spending a lot of money wasn't important in his case because he got a lot of free press hillary clinton did not campaign enough in the in the battleground states she didn't think that was important at least in the context of her campaign trump campaigned in the right places to win the electoral college because he knew what was important so trump consistently looks into complexity and pulls out the stuff that's important that is such a superpower and it's also

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that is such a superpower and it's also invisible to people who aren't looking for it you know all you see is sort of what he says and what he's doing you don't you don't have any sense that just before that was all the the smart stuff the smart stuff is what's worth talking about and what do i throw away do you think his decisions would have been substantially better if he read background reports probably not you know what would have been different about the way we're negotiating with china nothing what would be different about the way we're uh dealing with north korea what would be different about the way he handled taxes what would be different about anything he apparently knows how to get to the central truth of things without all the garbage so um let me put it in starker terms the people who are complaining about the president not reading their little background reports

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background reports are people who don't know how to tell what's important that's why they have those jobs because they can't tell what's important not at the same level that you know a top leader can they think everything's important so they put it in a report they put it on the leader's desk and the leader who's good at it who can tell the difference between what's important and what's not the just picks it up and says okay yeah china i got it i got it covered get back to me so we have never seen any specific problem that's caused because trump did not read some document one assumes that every time the trump trump says in a meeting with his advisors if he says hey i've got an idea let's try x at that point when the president tosses out an idea the smart people who have read the background material because they should they're the advisors say oops there's something you don't know that

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there's something you don't know that idea won't work there's something in the background report that says why it's because of x and then the president presumably i'm not in a room but i'm just this would be the normal way that anybody would manage and the president would hear that and say are you sure about that the advisor says yes
yes president makes a judgment about the person is that a person who tells me the right things is the person with good judgment is the person who knows what he's talking about yes did they just give me a good reason that makes my idea not practical yes let's move on he doesn't need to read the background materials indeed his ability to avoid the details is probably one of his best qualities because he seems to be able to run things with any of that take an example of selecting supreme court justices the way other presidents did it i guess

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the way other presidents did it i guess as they looked at each justice and they listened to people's arguments or whatever and then they picked one what trump did is he found an organization that is respected for selecting potential supreme court people and then he told the public i'm going to pick something from that list definitely you know eventually that was his message he said it's definitely going to be from this list who's on the list mr president i don't know [Laughter] no that's not quite true because he actually knew some of the personalities on the list from you know he's known him for a long time heard about them etc so he did know something about a number of the people on the list but he didn't need to know much he just needed to know that everyone agreed everyone being conservatives they agreed that the organization that made the list does a real good job of picking judges that are conservative and qualified for the court that's all he needed to know hey there's a respectable company or

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hey there's a respectable company or organization they make a list i'll pick from the list so
so you can't get you can't get much simpler than that and how has it worked out really really well for conservatives so my point is that it looks it just looks um well say it looks inexperienced for somebody to look at a book about trump's management style and characteristics his impulsiveness and stuff and judge that it's not working because it's clearly working and it might it might even be the model remember they said the same thing about reagan and i think reagan had the same quality which is reagan might not have been the smartest guy in the world but he could sure tell what was important he had a knack for for getting to the the hardest stuff all right um

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i believe that's what i wanted to talk about anybody have any questions did you notice what i didn't talk about today i didn't talk about ukraine because it's descending into ridiculous boring you know just stuff we don't care about oh matt tybee had a good article i read it what was it
uh i let let me say this this would be the weirdest recommendation i read matt tybee's piece in rolling stone there's a new one and i remember thinking it was sensational what was the topic
uh something about the ukraine basically it was a it was very anti-democrats i think it was about ukraine totally worth reading it was about the dossier something about that but uh i i think matt tybee who

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but uh i i think matt tybee who correct me if i'm wrong i don't think he associates or ever has with the right right isn't he sort of a left you know a reliably left-leaning guy
guy but he's going uh he's going full independent on what's going on with ukraine and russiagate and stuff like that in other words he's a smart guy who's actually looking at the actual facts and and it's it's jarring because he's so good he's one of the best writers you'll ever see just you know just a sentence that he writes is really delightful you know you'll enjoy reading his actual just the words they're just great um so anyway you should google that and read it
um somebody says tybee has perspective yeah it's a good way thank you all for uh getting my

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thank you all for uh getting my book somebody asked is tyrus back he is yes
thoughts on daryl davis i don't know who he is somebody says do you do you and christina see eye to eye on most things yes uh astonishingly we're we're on the same page about most things in life go on joe rogan again it doesn't look like it i've got a uh l.a trip coming up and um i haven't heard from him i would have i would of course go on his show anytime you wanted but but i don't think that i'm necessarily the kind of guest that he needs to bring back more than once so um
what happens after trump i don't know that's a long time from now 20 or 30 years from now thank you all for uh uh you and trump are number one best

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you and trump are number one best sellers on amazon today i think i'm number one in my in a couple of categories not number one overall but um you know let me let me tell you some of you like hearing sort of insider things about the author process i i hear that all the time i'm going to assume that some of you do and i will tell you an interesting thing so when you're writing a book and in my case uh because i have other things to do it takes me maybe a year to write a book and
and get it all edited and designed the cover and everything so it's about a year and that means that i i write when i start writing i just start writing to get volume and then i do a lot of editing and massaging and stuff so there are things that i wrote a year ago
ago that were in one form and you know that i keep writing and then i find oh i've written the same chapter twice and then i have to get rid of one so there's a whole bunch of editing and

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there's a whole bunch of editing and rearranging and the and re-reading when you're writing a book and then you're re rewriting it and reading again you're not reading it like a reader you're reading it like the person who wrote it so you can't really tell what you're creating while you're creating it because you can't put yourself in the in the independent observer's mind you can't be a customer and see your own writing as the customer the reader would see it because you're you're into it too much but
but the first time that even i as the author can read my own book as a reader is when some time has gone by and it's in its final form because there's a big difference between my raw first draft and then they're rearranged and edited and you know i've got the order of things and they're in good categories and the chapters make sense and one chapter leads to the next and all that and the first time that

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all that and the first time that i got to do that was actually last night
this is strange to say but i'll just say it anyway i got so many good comments about the book this week i mean like insanely good comments um that i wanted to see what they were talking about like i actually got curious about my own book because again until last night for all practical purposes i had never read it i wrote it but i've never experienced it as a consumer so i thought well i'm going to see what's in there because i really didn't know and so i read it for the first time not all of it but a few chapters last night and i thought to myself oh pretty good
so uh the part of the uh the cycle of being an author is when you first write a few chapters you might read them and say yeah these are good you come back a week

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yeah these are good you come back a week later and you read the same ones you're like ah these aren't good so you go through this it's good ah it's bad it's good that's bad that's good and what you can hope the only thing you'd hope is that the last thing that you read it's good and so i was quite delighted with this one i must say yes i am tooting my horn during book promotion week i hope it's not too obnoxious i do it for uh for good purpose i think i think this is the sort of book that people can get a lot out of
start with bragging and end with bragging somebody said that's right i'm bookending it have i hypnotized christina well not in the formal sense oh let's talk about kanye if kanye runs well he's not going to run in 2020 but he did say he's going to run in 2024. um

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but somebody just said i got an audible version of the book and i need a hard copy now i've heard from dozens and dozens of people this week that they bought two versions of my book for themselves people would buy a you know a kindle and a hard copy so that they've got a one that travels and one for home and they'd buy the audible for the car but then they'd want to buy the hard copy for a reference i've never seen i don't know if this has ever happened before and i just didn't know but i've never seen so many people buy two separate versions of a book at the same time is that common do people do that do you do that for other books because people are wildly doing that for this book somebody says they bought three versions of win bigly you have somebody else i bought three formats i bought hard copy and kindle and audio i've never seen that before

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i love being read to while reading oh somebody says i love being read to while reading that's interesting and other people are saying they routinely do that somebody says i usually buy both
somebody has audible kindle and the collector's version has world in it the typo
somebody says what what made me put sa on the inside cover and what you're referring to is is this i just took the cover off and there's little embossed essay here i don't know what that is
i saw it too now it happens to be my initials but i don't know that i don't know if that's why is there i mean i have no idea it doesn't stand for a loser think all right
oh yeah there's a mega challenge uh what was that there's

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some african american rapper is running a a challenge for people to make raps about the president and the president said he would invite the uh the finalists to the white house
so the president is very good at knowing what's a good show and so it was brilliant of him to say if somebody's creating wraps for the president obviously the president would like to you know bolster his african-american voting base it's just brilliant because it's just fun
fun it's just plain fun compare compare trump inviting uh probably african-american rappers to the white house how is that now fun right because they'd be doing probably humorous and clever raps about about the president that's just nothing but fun now compared to
to uh you can have a beer with elizabeth warren or something whatever the other candidates are

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whatever the other candidates are offering they don't have a sense of the show they don't they just don't have a sense of what people want to consume they're not rappers is that true is am i using a outdated uh
are they hip-hop artists am i using the wrong term i think somebody's giving me a hard time
all right let's talk about kanye kanye um seems to be serious about running in 2024 and as you all know he is a force of nature and you certainly would not want to rule him out for anything you know if kanye said he was going to try to compete in the olympics i'd say what he doesn't seem like an inexperienced athlete as far as i know maybe he is but because it's kanye i'd say well maybe maybe

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maybe maybe i don't think he can bench press 500 pounds but you know if he trains maybe so uh i say that jokingly but i think kanye has maybe something more important to offer
and by more important i mean maybe something more like a spiritual leader a spiritual leader who is
is accessible there are lots of spiritual leaders but they're not all accessible meaning they're not for everybody you know maybe they're too cultish maybe it's not your religion you know maybe it's just not your ethnicity maybe there's something about it that you say well that's somebody else that's not me
but kanye has this um he's sort of developing a i'll say a brand of spiritual religious

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experience that seems to be completely accessible stop laughing bill [Laughter] this is more accessible so meaning that uh who likes who likes kanye basically everybody who likes um jesus in the united states well almost everybody who's a christian and and anybody who's not a christian doesn't disagree with jesus right you don't have to be a believer to say at the same time well the jesus stuff is good stuff you know whether you think it's you know historically exactly accurate or not all the jesus stuff is good stuff so so kanye's managed to find a way to appeal to
to you know the left while making them a little bit uncomfortable about how friendly he is with the right well the right is a little bit uncomfortable but you know because maybe they weren't fans before or whatever but everybody's kind of seeing him do the jesus stuff

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the jesus stuff and then suddenly both sides are like oh that's good we like that part and then he goes and he creates i i honestly didn't know if he could do this so he created this um what would you call it christie music christian i don't know what it is i don't know the right terms but his new uh
uh album is all about jesus and religion and i thought to myself is he to find an audience for this is this going to be good and sure enough it is you know it's it's not exactly my kind of entertainment but apparently it's hugely successful well done his usual amazing creativity um so he did it again you know every time you say every time you think to yourself well maybe you should stick to music not fashion oh okay fashion worked he made a billion dollars with that

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billion dollars with that but you know don't do religious music stick to your regular music and stick to your fashion stuff oh okay i guess he can do gospel music too so it seems to be doing anything he wants but my point is that his i believe his strength is not in the details so it feels like he would be wasted if he got ground up in the regular political process no maybe not you know once again i might be making an assumption that's unwarranted but i hate to waste what he brings by putting him through the grinder because i i don't know what you're like when you come out the other end of that but if he keeps doing what he's doing in every way not just the music the inspirational stuff but if he just keeps talking in public about things that matter to him i don't know he's he could be one of the most well maybe he already is one of the most

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well maybe he already is one of the most powerful figures in the country on for all the positive stuff and then he doesn't have to deal with the you know the potholes and the and the details and stuff so i say he's more powerful as not a president and that the president experience would take away his power you know it would add a different kind of power he'd be in charge of the military and stuff but i just think he'd be more powerful than even a president in his own way if he just continues doing what he's doing so running for running for president or putting your name out there is a good strategy even if you don't run for president so i'm sure he is smart enough he's definitely smart enough to know that just putting his name into that conversation improves his his power and his power is being used for good he's clearly he's clearly decided to spend the rest

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he's clearly decided to spend the rest of his you know productive life making the world better you know instead of just making money so uh i'm a big fan anyway that's all for now i'm gonna go pack and head on home and i will talk to you all later